ABOUT THE FLAGRANT VIOLATIONS
OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ACTIONS AGAINST NATIONAL INTEGRITY OF ALBANIANS;
THE NECESSITY OF SENTENCE OF CRIMES ON THE POPULATION IN THE EVENTS OF
1997; AND THE REQUISITION OF MEASURES FOR THE PREVENTION OF MURDER CRIME.

TO:
European Court of Human Rights
International Criminal Court
European Commission
Council of Europe
OSCE
Department of State, Senate and President of USA

PRESENTED TO:
President of Republic of Albania
Head of Albanian Parliament
Prime Minister of Albania
Chairmen of Parliamentary Political Parties of Albania
Chairmen of Parliamentary Commissions of Albania
Members of Albanian Parliament
All Ambassadors and International Organizations accredited in Albania

Based on the United Nations Charter,
Common Declaration of Human Rights, European Convention for the Protection
of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, International Pact for Civil
and Political Rights, with worry we are presenting to you the unacceptable
violations of human rights in Albania, the grave situation of crimes on
life and property, as well as the actions against the national integrity
of Albanians. The serious examination of this situation in total opposition
with the basic political and juridical charters of the modern civilization
is a fundamental obligation of every public authority. It is an obligation
of Albanian and International authorities, International Organizations
and their political and juridical mechanisms.

From 17 years Albanians are going
through crises, social stress and tragic events, through which no other
European country went. The insecurity for life, extreme poverty, stress
of violence of politics and media, the doubt for the future continue to
stimulate the ruin of life values and an endless and painful emigration.
The consequences of this situation are also the tragic violation within
the family, suicides as well as the murders for revenge and blood feud.
This situation has become a worry also for those members of international
community that are leaded by benevolent feelings for the future of Albanian
people. This elongated crisis, that is continuously generating crime,
is caused by the political leaders and their clans with inheritance from
the past, positioned since the beginning of pluralism in both sides of
the Albanian politic. These clans are influenced by anti-Albanian lobbies
that work against the people’s interests and our national integrity.
The influence of these lobbies in the halls of Albanian politics realized
the predomination during these years of the fight for power and anarchy;
ruination of all our national affluence; the organization of unrests of
1997 for the collapse of the Army and state structures, steal of Albanians’
money and the incitement of population in the civil war, where 1500 persons
were murdered. The anti-Albania lobbies with political and religious support
in the region and broader have been and remain the main danger of the
stability and progress in Albania. The Albanian governments, under the
pressure of Europe for stability, cover this situation with media propaganda,
sophisticated demagogy and phony debates on reforms and integration. Under
the domination of these political leaders the democracy has been violated
and deformed. Many draft-laws of the governments do not serve to the citizens’
interests but to the strategies of anti-Albanian lobbies.

These lobbies have in their service
also the representatives of the main potentials of eastern narcotics trafficking
that go toward Europe through the corridor Sofia-Belgrade and the islands
of Greece. At the disposition for cleaning their money there are hundreds
of banks in the south of Peninsula. They cover this activity by presenting
the Albanian territory as alarming, while the amount of narcotic substances
passing through our country is inexistent, 1.5 tons opposite to 2000-2500
tons that this Eastern route passes in a 12 months period. The amplification
of noise for the danger of trafficking in Albania is done for the purposes:
A- To cover the network B- To discredit Albanians. C- To elongate the
crisis and buy cheaper the resources. D- To weaken and sent toward obliteration
our national integrity by means of the domination of the trade market
and economy. This play has served to the obstruction of country’s
development, ruination of the economical life of citizens, stoppage of
production, ruination of the businesses and tourism opportunities, stoppage
and destruction of the perspective of hydro-energy, embezzlement of state’s
budget, and transfer of money in the hands of foreign bankers. All our
economical resources are passing in the hands of non-Albanian capitalists.
Apart the low-priced labor force they want to exploit the terrain almost
freely, though the Albanian lands are Mediterranean, productive and of
the most coveted. With the slogans “Globalization” and “Integration”
the Albanian political class has prepared the terrain of this inhuman
strategy that serves neither to the United Europe nor to the North Atlantic
Allies. Europe would find more useful a developed Albanian nation with
its own culture than a degraded people without a motherland, wandering
in the streets of Western countries. Keeping the country in a continuous
crisis for calling “foreign investments” by “important
operators of friendly countries”, is the strategy and the work of
this lobbies for easily dominating the market and profiting through politics.

From the information of international representatives we learn that in
these activities politicians and state representatives of neighboring
countries are also implicated. In police actions of these countries against
Albanians, often movements of large amounts of narcotic substances are
covered. This worry is raised in front of the western public opinion also
by the lawyers of Albanians that are penalized in these countries for
inconsiderable amounts of narcotic substances. From the statistics of
the western countries it results that not even 10% of Albanians are involved
in trafficking. All the others work honestly, want to integrate and are
more bound to the family than the citizens of the countries to which they
emigrate. Albanian governments not only do not help them, but have signed
their return in case they do not have the right of asylum, whilst the
majority of the Albanian population is economically based on emigrants’
income. The only opportunity for providing asylum right to an Albanian
is when he is afraid to return in Albania because of blood feud. Unfortunately,
even the Albanian Police was able to register neither 10% of the conflicts
for lands, person’s dignity violation or honor issues, for having
the competences to prove the dangerousness of deportation.
The Committee of Nationwide Reconciliation has made efforts to sensitize
the western countries that Europe, not only should forbid such behaviors
toward Albanian emigrants, but should systemize them in the best possible
ways and stop any prejudice toward our people because it has obligations.
For the profits of European powers our people was divided in four territories.
The economical damage done to our country by this fragmentation would
ask as compensation hundred billions of dollars, nevertheless Albanians
never raised their voice. In the nowadays conditions it would be an incontestable
moral obligation that Europe invested with easing conditions in hydro-energy,
education, health system and road infrastructure. In this way it would
accelerate the contribution for the acceptance procedures. Of course this
investment would have been done if our political class would not be under
the influence of regressive politics and would act with dignity for the
protection of its people’s interests. The influence of these regressive
politics in the Albanian governments has ruined the country and postponed
the terms of acceptance in EU. During these 17 years, in the conditions
of an extreme poverty, Albanians were able to accumulate 15 billion dollars
for their state’s budget, without taking into account the donations
of international organizations. This budget was misappropriated with a
bulky administrative staff and embezzled for electoral investments without
any perspective. Only with 2 billion dollars the hydro-energetic system
planned before the transition period would have been completed and it
would furnish also other countries of the region, considering the capacity
of water sources that it possesses. This system of dams and water-collectors
would also be a contribution for tourism and ecology. Nowadays Albanians
have opportunities for developing neither tourism nor their economy and
capital. The majority of population is unemployed because of the lack
of market and country production. Even the trade activity done with scarce
merchandises of import has a very low rate and is conducted only during
the day hours, while in the neighboring countries only the night activity
reaches billions of dollars. In our country, in a very absurd way, the
state not only does not stimulate the trade and work during 24 hours but
has made illogical laws and rules like the anti-constitutional memorandum
of motor boats by impeding the private activity of its citizens.
.
The strategy of destruction till reaching zero level (a strategy predicted
in the beginning of pluralism in the auditors of the political parties)
has served to the massive damage of the natural values, eradication of
river beds and the cut of forests for selling them in those countries
where these values are fanatically protected. Apart the eradication of
river beds and almost of all the coastline, TEC-s and AMBO oil pipeline
are being build almost for free in the coasts of Adriatic sea, while only
for the protection of the ecological system of the environment were they
will be installed the contractors should pay a minimal fee of 20 billion
dollars. The contracts of investment for these TEC-s and the oil pipeline
do not reach even one billion dollars; meanwhile the governments are taking
loans from foreign banks even for social issues. Albanian governments
declare these loans as their successes by hiding to the people the fact
that the obligatory pay off of the dept to these banks will be done with
the national resources.

The control of the anti-Albanian
lobbies is increasing every day, not only over the economical life but
also on the private one. These days the necessary tools were used for
the further preservation of the monopoly on the telephone calls of the
two foreign companies even though the benefit of these companies on citizen’s
expenses is inhuman. The operators from Canada and United States that
wanted to intervene for the liberalization of this market confirm that
they faced the same obstacles in some countries of Africa, where the companies
of the monopoly give tips of more than 10 million dollars to the governors
for forbidding new licenses. In a totally inhuman way the state violates
the private life for controlling the businesses of the political opponents
more than the criminals and the murders that wander freely. The number
of persons under eavesdropping in Albania is the same with that in the
United States of America, where only in California there is an annual
flow of 30 billion dollars from the trafficking of marihuana. Another
obvious index of the domination of these lobbies and the benefit on the
citizens’ expenses is their monopoly on the casinos and gambling
houses. Albanian citizens do not have any protection from this violation
and criminal exploitation because the syndicates are inexistent or under
political parties’ control. The political battle for taking or having
under control the independent institutions of the state has made them
powerless against these economical crimes connected with politic. Only
simple citizens and their businesses are investigated for economical crime.

In the course of this anti-Albanian
politic the attack toward the history and the abandonment till degradation
of the values of the national cultural heritage continue for years. With
the pretext of reforms, the majority of the scientists with merited titles
are left unemployed or pensioned. The obliteration of Sciences Academy
is done for eliminating the protection of the values of our national history
and heritage, especially of the heritage outside the territory of Albania,
which makes up more than 70% of this value. This is a result of the fact
that the Albanian political parties do have neither a national mission
nor a vision for the values of humanity. The elimination of the political
right wing in Albania, which would have in its program the protection
of the property and the inherited values, the empowerment of the national
economy and the avoidance of the social crises of the country, was the
first step of the fulfillment of the strategy of the anti-Albanian lobbies
in politic. Their domination continuously emerged also during the electoral
processes by inciting uncontrolled funds.

Under the pressure of these lobbies,
the exponents of Albanian politic involved in the tragic scenario of the
murder of population in 1997 realized the proclamation of an amnesty for
covering up this act that carries within even crime against humanity.
The Albanian politicians did not accept the least moral responsibility
for this crime. The minimum that they should have done, was asking forgiveness
to the people and renounce. But they keep recycling themselves in politics
and in high positions of the state. On June 21 of 2004, the Committee
of Nationwide Reconciliation, in cooperation with some other non-government
organizations, presented a memorandum to the Albanian public opinion and
international factor for the change of the politico-social situation in
Albania and the destruction of the monopoly on the political parties.
The memorandum also requested to the highest institutions of Albania state,
political parties, prime minister and the chief of the political opposition,
the establishment of a national independent commission with experts of
state and civil society for the investigation of the connections of crime
with politic, examination of the events of 1997 and the revelation of
the organizers of the scenario of the civil war and the misappropriation
of people’s money as well as putting these persons in front of the
justice. The political leadership avoided the establishment of this commission
without any explanation. To justify in front of the international pressure
that asked the liberalization and democratization of the auditoriums of
the political parties, maneuvers in media against some guiltless individuals
were done, and “structures composed of civil society members”
were established by empowering even more the presence of these lobbies
in the Albanian politics.

Favored by the corruption in justices
and the laws in the penal code over 2000 criminals, who have became the
cause of the blood feud actions on them wander freely in the streets of
Albania and Europe (most of these criminals are wanted also by Interpol).
During all these years, our requests for a national strategy about the
prevention of self-judgment and the observation of the rule of law’s
institutions have been abandoned. The consequences have fallen over hundreds
of innocent women and children that isolate themselves because they are
feared of being murdered for the crime that a relative of their family
has committed. The laws favoring the usurpation of other’s property
have fostered this tragic aspect of the Albanian society by involving
in conflicts more than 200 000 Albanian families. Even though a law for
the mediation and establishment of a coordinative council for the prevention
of murders for revenge and blood feud was made, no administrative act
has been approved for its implementation. By blocking the administrative
acts, its avoidance and the compilation of another law, which will be
controlled by the Prime Ministry and not the Presidency, were aimed. Unfortunately
western donors were captured by the trafficking of influences of the above
mention lobbies. Millions of dollars were rewarded for false projects
compiled according to the interests of this traffic that do not have any
positive effect on Albanian society. The donors have never been vigilant
of the operators working with the in Albania. Only for justifying the
projects supported by the donors, it has become a custom to propose unnecessary
structures and recurrent changes of the laws, without facing them with
the reality and human rights, without the juridical logic and professional
criteria. This has brought the perception that the law does not belong
to citizens’ interests, but to the interests of the political parties,
by causing so much “inflation” in its estimation that the
citizens do not show more interest on it. For thirteen years projects
for the electoral code and for the laws about equal gender were financed
and have given no positive result. In the same way, for monetary profits
and bad intention unnecessary projects on religious cohabitation are being
financed, even if our country is a positive example for the whole world
in this direction. The parliamentary resolutions and the draft-laws for
the punishment of communism crimes have become political farces and have
served nothing to the rehabilitation of the caused damages, especially
the ones on the land owners and their persecuted families, religious institutions,
clergy and political prisoners.

Considering this situation, the
Committee of Nationwide Reconciliation appeals to the European Court of
Human Rights, International Criminal Court and to the International Institutions
for making the necessary steps to:
1- Establish an international commission for the investigation of the
grave violations of human rights and of the crimes on the population in
Albania, especially on the events of 1997.
2- Obligate the Albanian State, as responsible for the protection of the
pyramidal schemes for returning the money to the citizens and send the
guilty persons in front of the justice.
3- Obligate the Albanian State to acknowledge the right of property and
compensate the citizens violated by the law 7501 on land issues and the
law on legalizations.
4- Obligate the Albanian State to reform the laws that are in opposition
with the human rights and International Conventions.
5- Obligate the Albanian State so that the its prosecution and investigation
institutions, as well as the Albanian justice to cooperate with the international
organizations for the issues pointed out in this document. They can not
put justice without the help of the international institutions, because
they are under the pressure of the politic and totally unprotected from
it. The organizers of the criminal acts on the population during these
years are still on the political life and in the state’s administration.
The Albanian citizens, who have been victims of politics for 17 years,
should feel the responsibility of the international community and justice
for the punishment of crimes. The civil war in 1997 was avoided, not because
the politicians wanted, but because of the people’s intuition, intervention
of the international factor and the work of the representatives of the
reconciliation mission in the north that convinced most of the families
for not sending their sons in the south against the protestors.

* * * The Committee of Nationwide
Reconciliation requests that the political parties should do a fundamental
change with dignity in front of the citizens, by establishing a new vision
and working with dedication for repairing the damages that they caused
to their people.
* * * The Committee of Nationwide Reconciliation appeals to the international
factor to protect with human responsibility from ruination the future
of our nation, which is one of the oldest trees in the garden of the European
cultures. The garden of United Europe will not be more beautiful without
the characteristic Albanian tree.